Crites Family Stuff

Ingredients for 4 servings

• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 16 oz jar salsa
• 1 cup sour cream

Steps

1. Cook chicken and salsa in crock pot for 6-8 hours on low. The last hour, shred chicken and add sour cream.
2. The chicken can be used for tacos, tostadas, burritos, etc.

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Ingredients for 10 servings

• 1 can orange juice
• 2 cans water
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Sprite

Steps

1. Mix orange juice with water. Add vanilla and about 3 cups of Sprite (add more or less to your liking). Stir. Served chilled.
2. Tastes just like a dreamsicle.

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Ingredients for 16 servings

• .33 cup sugar
• .25 tsp salt
• .33 tsp pepper
• .25 cup vinegar
• .25 tsp paprika
• .5 cup oil
• 1 clove garlic, crushed

Steps

1. Mix together and toss with green salad.

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This is a favorite salad among my family and where ever it is served. The recipe comes from Dan's niece Stephanie Sundseth who is an amazing cook! Stephanie's family and her brother Bryan Crites have joined in many Farmer family gatherings. We all rave about her food!
Stephanie Kreger: Stephanie Sundseth gave this recipe to my mom several years ago. While my sister-in-law CeeCee was in town visiting before Lon and I got married, my mom made this for dinner. CeeCee raved about "Jolene's" caesar salad dressing. Now, when we are in town visiting Lon's family, I often hear people rave about "CeeCee's" caesar salad dressing!

Ingredients for 8 servings

• 2 heads Romaine lettuce, cleaned and chopped
• .25 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• Croutons
• 1 cup grilled chicken, sliced thin (optional)

Dressing:

• 2 cups mayonnaise (Best Foods is the best)
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 3 cloves fresh garlic, crushed
• .5 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Steps

1. Mix the dressing the day before use. Use only enough to moisten the lettuce (recipe makes more than needed for one salad). This is a very thick dressing and needs to be mixed with the lettuce using your hands, so no big globs are left in the salad. Store unused portion in the refrigerator for up to a month or more.
2. Toss the Romaine, cheese and chicken together with the dressing. Top with croutons. (Homemade ones are the best and easy to make. Dice up a loaf of French bread. Leave out on counter for a day. Toss with a generous amount of melted butter and garlic salt. Bake in 400F oven until toasty and golden brown.)
3. The dressing can also be used for a cheesy bread. Spread on fresh slices of French bread and place under the boiler until hot and bubbly. Serve warm.

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Dorothy Farmer: Debbie gave me this recipe after we had eaten at a restaurant that had served it.

Ingredients for 8 servings

• .5 cup Parmesan or Romano grated cheese
• .5 cup grated onion
• 1 cup real mayonnaise
• French bread

Steps

1. Mix the cheese, grated onion and mayonnaise together. Cut French bread and spread with butter. Spread with sauce and broil until golden brown.
2. I go easy on the onion and heavy on the cheese. Better if eaten at once.

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This is the easy cookie recipe my children started their cooking debut with. It is an easy, almost instant cookie recipe. Even the boys could handle it.

Ingredients for 24 servings

• 2 cups sugar
• .5 cup milk
• .5 cup shortening
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• .5 tsp salt
• 3 cups quick oatmeal
• 1 tsp vanilla
• .5 cup chopped nuts
• 1 cup coconut

Steps

1. Combine sugar, milk, shortening, cocoa and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add the quick oatmeal, vanilla, chopped nuts, and coconut. Drop by spoonfuls on wax paper.
2. Annie Crites makes these but uses margarine instead of shortening and add 1/2 cup peanut butter, as well.

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Ingredients for 12 servings

• Commercially prepared egg nog
• Softened vanilla icecream
• Sprite

Steps

1. Depending on how many you want to serve, use equal parts of commercially prepared eggnog and softened vanilla ice cream. Stir together and it is best when served immediately.

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Jack and I were visiting his cousin Doris Beall in Basin, Wyoming and she asked us if we would like a cup of tea before we left. We declined, but she, a non-Mormon, sensed our reason for not accepting it and guaranteed this was a non-caffeine type of tea, and served us this recipe. Jack liked it so well, she gave us the recipe. Some of our family didn't like it too well, so I didn't make it often, but Jack loved it.

Ingredients for 12 servings

• 1 quart of cranberry cocktail
• 1 quart water
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup red hot candies
• 9 whole cloves
• 4 oranges, juiced
• 4 lemons, juiced

Steps

1. Add the sugar, red hot candies and cloves to the cranberry cocktail and water and boil for a few minutes. Add juice from the oranges and lemons. This is your tea base. Use 1/3 cup base to 3/4 cup boiling water to make one cup of tea. Refrigerate unused portion of base until ready to use again. Remember to remove the whole cloves before serving.

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This is a well-known and well-liked sandwich in the Dorothy-Jack household. I found it in a magazine before I was married. I made it for my Wold family and it went over like a lead balloon. They even laughed at it, but when I made it for Jack, it became his favorite sandwich, and our children all liked it too. It is a quick and hardy sandwich, and easy to prepare.

Ingredients for 6 servings

• 9 slices of bread
• Large can of baked beans
• 18 slices of bacon
• 9 slices of cheese

Steps

1. Toast one side of bread in the oven. Cover the untoasted side of bread with a generous portion of baked beans which have been heated. Layer two slices of crisply fried bacon slices broken in half over the beans and cover this with a slice of cheese. Broil in the oven until cheese melts. Jack would eat three of these for his serving.

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Ingredients for 15 servings

• 16 oz can crushed pineapple
• 16 oz can cherry pie filling
• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 1.5 cubes of margarine
• .5 cup chopped nuts

Steps

1. Spread pineapple in the bottom of a 13x9 pan. Spread cherry filling over the pineapple. Sprinkle dry cake mix over the mixture. Cut margarine in thin slices and place over the cake mix. Sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake 50 minutes at 350F. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

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